Where did this guy go? I like his thought process before he goes off on a multi-comment rant.>> ^Cronyx:

(I split the following up into a few posts because it was too large.)
I don't claim to be an expert, or an authority on this stuff. I will say that I've been fascinated by it on a personal level for over ten years. It started back in the ZDtv days (before TechTV), when Michio Kaku was on an episode of Big Thinkers. I read anything I can get my hands on, and watch all material that comes my way.
Take the following for what it's worth, I'm not trying to proselytize an agenda, just share some of my private thoughts.
I've got a number of analogies I could use here for describing the entire (11 dimensional) universe. Two of my favorites are a VHS tape and hologram baseball card. They both kind of work the same way in so far as how they relate to the thought experiment. I'll explain both.
In the case of the VHS tape, it has your favorite movie on it. You know it word for word, line for line. You've seen it a hundred times. But no matter how many times you watch it, the story will always end the same way. But, from the point of view of the characters (I'm talking in a 4th wall sense; the characters themselves, not the actors playing them), have no idea what will happen next. In fact, the same was true for you the first time you saw the movie. There may have been some foreshadowing, but hell, there's some of that in real life too.
The point is, with the tape, you can fast forward, rewind, pause, browse the timeline however you choose. But the characters are oblivious to this. You aren't really manipulating their timeline, you're just browsing it for your own perspective. If you eject the tape though, you're holding the entire timeline. You've collapsed their universe into a 3 dimensional object. It only has a 4th dimension when you put it in the VCR. When you watch it. But even during the novel first experience of the initial viewing, the end of the story was there. It was always there, predetermined at the end of the tape.
On to the baseball card for a moment. Now, given various factors in the developing process, that hologram card has a lot more information than what you can see at one time, flat on. You have to tilt it one way or an other to get a different view -- to access more of the data. And yet, viewing the different angels don't create that data. Knowing they're there doesn't make them exist. It only makes you aware of them. Holding the card, you still hold all the potential that image has all at once, in that one object, even if you can't be privy to it all at once.

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>> ^dracoirs:
>> ^spoco2:
I can't upvote, as while the commercial is brilliant, and the way they made it is fascinating, the host IS A DICK.
Bloody hell, gush more why don't you? Pretend like you know what they're talking about (Catapult? Really, you actually thought they meant a catapult... idiot)... I couldn't watch it to the end thanks to his insanely annoying presence.

If I could downvote you I would. Leo Laporte is a wonderful man. Good old TechTV FTW


Leo LaPorte is a douchebag

>> ^dracoirs:
>> ^spoco2:
I can't upvote, as while the commercial is brilliant, and the way they made it is fascinating, the host IS A DICK.
Bloody hell, gush more why don't you? Pretend like you know what they're talking about (Catapult? Really, you actually thought they meant a catapult... idiot)... I couldn't watch it to the end thanks to his insanely annoying presence.

If I could downvote you I would. Leo Laporte is a wonderful man. Good old TechTV FTW


He may be a wonderful man, but he is incredibly painful to listen to in this piece, he is atrociously gushing and misses the point they're making on a number of occasions... it's just a terrible piece.

>> ^spoco2:
I can't upvote, as while the commercial is brilliant, and the way they made it is fascinating, the host IS A DICK.
Bloody hell, gush more why don't you? Pretend like you know what they're talking about (Catapult? Really, you actually thought they meant a catapult... idiot)... I couldn't watch it to the end thanks to his insanely annoying presence.


If I could downvote you I would. Leo Laporte is a wonderful man. Good old TechTV FTW

I could easily see that guy hosting a new TechTV Call for Help show

I am and it was awesome! (Hilarious story, btw.) This was only my second time going to E3 so I still feel warm and fuzzy when I'm there. Does anyone actually watch G4 any more? I mean, aside from watching that purdy lady.

Funny that you should mention Enter the Matrix, I guess it's finally being shut down in July. There are at least 10 people who are going to be really upset about that.

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Bastard. I haven't been to E3 in six years.

True story, I was there when GTV's Morgan just started X-Play (replacing that Kate chick), and I remember when she was on that show on TechTV called Screensavers so that's why I recognized her. Well, her and Adam come up to a game station near me and I say hi to Morgan.

I completely ignore Adam, which kind of ticked him off, I think, because he had been on the show for so long. Well anyway, like I was saying, I was playing the soon-to-be released Enter the Matrix game which kind of sucked, but, anyways, I raped her boobies in bullet time. The end. I never said it was a mature and/or good story. Accuracy, people. Accuracy.

Bastard. I haven't been to E3 in six years.

True story, I was there when GTV's Morgan just started X-Play (replacing that Kate chick), and I remember when she was on that show on TechTV called Screensavers so that's why I recognized her. Well, her and Adam come up to a game station near me and I say hi to Morgan.

I completely ignore Adam, which kind of ticked him off, I think, because he had been on the show for so long. Well anyway, like I was saying, I was playing the soon-to-be released Enter the Matrix game which kind of sucked, but, anyways, I raped her boobies in bullet time. The end. I never said it was a mature and/or good story. Accuracy, people. Accuracy.

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